Emil Julius Uhlfelder

Emil Julius Uhlfelder (born February 9, 1871 in Munich ; † August 11, 1935 there ) was a German chemist.

Life

Born the son of the Jewish banker and commercial judge at the regional court, Hermann Uhlfelder (1836–1902), and his wife Jenny, née May (1843–1915), Emil Uhlfelder grew up with his siblings Joseph (1867–1906) and Franziska (1868–1890) ) in Munich. From 1880 to 1890 he attended the humanistic Maximiliansgymnasium . After graduating from high school with, among others, Ernst von Bibra , Otto Dimroth , Sigmund Hellmann and August Möslinger , he studied chemistry at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1896 as an assistant at the chemical laboratory of the Royal Conservatory. phil. with the dissertation “About some derivatives of nitrobiuret and nitrodicyandiamidine”.

Uhlfelder has researched and published in the field of organic chemistry. Together with Alfred Einhorn , he synthesized the local anesthetic novocaine in the Hoechst paint factory in 1904 , which was patented. It was mainly used in dentistry as a substitute for cocaine.

In 1905 Uhlfelder acquired citizenship in Munich. He remained unmarried and died at the age of 64; his urn was buried in the grave of his daughter Franziska in the old Israelite cemetery in Munich .

Publications (selection)

with Johannes Thiele : About nitro and aminobiuret in: Chemiker-Zeitung , No. 36, 1898, p. 308 ff.
with Ludwig Vanino : About organic peroxides , in: Reports of the German Chemical Society , Vol. 33, 1900, pp. 1043 ff.
On the effect of phosphorus pentachloride on anthranilic acid (Ed .: Chemisches Labor. Der Royal Academy of Sciences in Munich), Munich 1903.
with Alfred Einhorn: About the p-aminobenzoic acid diethylamino and piperidoethyl ester . 1909.
with Alfred Einhorn, Karl Fiedler, Carl Ladisch: About p-Aminobenzoësäurealkaminester , in: Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie , Vol. 10, S. 142 ff.
with Alfred Einhorn: On esters and alkamine esters of m, p-diaminobenzoic acid , in Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie 1909, p. 162 ff.
with Alfred Einhorn: About new medicines , in: Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie , Vol. 371, 1909, pp. 130 ff.

literature

Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft (Ed.): Beilstein's Handbook of Organic Chemistry , 4th Edition, Vol. 3, Julius Springer, Berlin 1921.
Joseph Lincoln Uhlfelder: Descendant table for my great-grandfather Reb Hirsch Marx Uhlfelder in Heckendorf (Ufr.) . Dresden 1938.
City Archives Munich (Ed.): Biographical memorial book of Munich Jews 1933–1945 . Vol. 2 (M-Z). Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-8306-7280-7 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

↑ Son of David Uhlfelder (1807–1891), banker in Munich, and Bertha, née Seligstein (1806–1879).
^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1889/90.
↑ Among other things in Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie ; Chemist newspaper ; Reports of the German Chemical Society .
↑ DRP 170587: Representation of anesthetizing alkamine esters of o-, m- and p-aminobenzoic acid, salicylic acid and aminocinnamic acid, Farbwerke vorm. Master Lucius & Brüning, A. Einhorn, E. Uhlfelder.
↑ Jewish registry, graves directory, vol. 6: Munich, Bavarian main state archive.

personal data
SURNAME	Uhlfelder, Emil Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	August 11, 1935
Place of death	Munich

[1] Son of David Uhlfelder (1807–1891), banker in Munich, and Bertha, née Seligstein (1806–1879).

[2] Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1889/90.

[3] Among other things in Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie ; Chemist newspaper ; Reports of the German Chemical Society .

[4] DRP 170587: Representation of anesthetizing alkamine esters of o-, m- and p-aminobenzoic acid, salicylic acid and aminocinnamic acid, Farbwerke vorm. Master Lucius & Brüning, A. Einhorn, E. Uhlfelder.

[5] Jewish registry, graves directory, vol. 6: Munich, Bavarian main state archive.